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Letter: Letters: Expanding Clarke

Published 2 April 1994

From ARTHUR C. CLARKE

As Harry Harrison makes two unsolicited testimonials to me in his review
of Flux (12 February), I am embarrassed to say that I always believed the
description of science fiction as ‘the only genuine consciousness-expanding
drug’ originated not with C. S. Lewis but with . . .

Arthur C. Clarke Colombo, Sri Lanka

Issue no. 1919 published 2 April 1994

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